Greater Los Angeles Wildfires

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1/45
🇺 Brian Tyler Cohen
Flashback to 2020:

CA official: "If we ignore the science and put our head in the sand... we're not going to succeed together protecting Californians."

Trump: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch."

"I wish science agreed with you."

Trump: "I don’t think science knows, actually."

https://video.bsky.app/watch/did:pl...72wjzptj6o6emxik6nkfp3szeaydpjm/playlist.m3u8



2/45
🇺 ‪notyourmum.bsky.social‬ ‪@notyourmum.bsky.social‬
Nobody can explain scientific evidence to Trump because he won’t listen or read.



3/45
🇺 ‪John‬ ‪@jct35j.bsky.social‬
Fvcking idiot!



4/45
🇺 ‪Quietly Curious 🇺🇦🇨🇦 🏝️ 🤙🍍🍕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦄🐙🐉‬ ‪@quietlycurious.bsky.social‬
What an arrogant fukking shytbag. As if he has a clue about science. He’s a moron. This clip illustrates his stupidity. There are other examples of how dinglenuts is a dunce but this is particularly timely with the LA fires.

HOW can he have supporters who can’t see how freakin’ pea-brained he is???



5/45
🇺 ‪German_USA - ally 🌈 resister 💙 woke af.‬ ‪@germanusa.bsky.social‬
That fukking arrogant, clueless dikk



6/45
🇺 ‪dadrick57.bsky.social‬ ‪@dadrick57.bsky.social‬
I don't know if I can handle 4 more years of this shyt show



7/45
🇺 ‪capitano-del-piero.bsky.social‬ ‪@capitano-del-piero.bsky.social‬
It's really incomprehensible where we're at in this point in history and the man that's going to run this country.

I've literally lost all words to describe what's going on.



8/45
🇺 ‪OhCanadienne‬ ‪@ohcanadienne.bsky.social‬
We keep trying to express our outrage, and we do, but it’s not changing our reality. The only thing that will change our reality is if we boycott the shyt out of the major tech companies. Pull out, walk away, spread the word. Unsubscribe. Our wallets are the key.



9/45
🇺 ‪ethainejourdan.bsky.social‬ ‪@ethainejourdan.bsky.social‬
That and hear me out, take a que from past movements. Actually show up in person and let them know how angry we are.



10/45
🇺 ‪Mark Cathcart‬ ‪@markcathcart.com‬
Totally. Posting on social media is more effective than praying, so there's that.



11/45
🇺 ‪ethainejourdan.bsky.social‬ ‪@ethainejourdan.bsky.social‬
Ummm that’s not before us did. They showed up in person.



12/45
🇺 ‪sdk3.bsky.social‬ ‪@sdk3.bsky.social‬
He is so utterly stupid.



13/45
🇺 ‪Rachel M‬ ‪@animalfriends2.bsky.social‬
His arrogant face and demeanor is baseball bat worthy. The fact that no one ever goes off on him to his face and calls him out for the moron that he is enrages me in a way I can't describe.



14/45
🇺 ‪angrymonke.bsky.social‬ ‪@angrymonke.bsky.social‬
You don't need to, I understand.



15/45
🇺 ‪Joan Cortez‬ ‪@doggiemama.bsky.social‬
He’s the dumbest dumb ass that was ever born.



16/45
🇺 ‪GoBills2025‬ ‪@gobills2024.bsky.social‬
She should’ve responded by calling him an idiot. I would’ve. I wish people would get some balls when talking to this guy.



17/45
🇺 ‪jangreene.bsky.social‬ ‪@jangreene.bsky.social‬
They give him too much undeserved respect, when he respects no one.



18/45
🇺 ‪GoBills2025‬ ‪@gobills2024.bsky.social‬
I don’t get it either. Why doesn’t anyone have the nerve to fire back at this guy?



19/45
🇺 ‪w-sty.bsky.social‬ ‪@w-sty.bsky.social‬
Any that has stood up to that POS are referred to as the "enemy." If they are reporters, they are "fake news." Sitting Congress members, "primaried out." They are too afraid of his criticism.



20/45
🇺 ‪barely-sane.bsky.social‬ ‪@barely-sane.bsky.social‬
"Science doesn't know actually, I know better than probably anyone, did I tell you my uncle taught at MIT? I'm smart, really smart. What were we talking about? Oh right watermelon head Schiff."
This pinhead has a swollen head, a swollen pin, rarely seen.



21/45
🇺 ‪janvava.bsky.social‬ ‪@janvava.bsky.social‬
Absolute f—kin moron



22/45
🇺 ‪Parker Cestaric‬ ‪@sargondrin.bsky.social‬
An anti-intellectual in the truest sense.



23/45
🇺 ‪mutedbeacon.bsky.social‬ ‪@mutedbeacon.bsky.social‬
Wasn’t life better when we didn’t have to care what he thought?



24/45
🇺 ‪Woke2024‬ ‪@woke2024.bsky.social‬
Except he has been in our faces 24/7 for 8 years.



25/45
🇺 ‪ProudSocialistLiberal⚛️💙🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍⚧️‬ ‪@proudsocialistd.bsky.social‬
Can't believe we are going back to this utter bullshyt 😮‍💨🤬😒



26/45
🇺 ‪Sérgio Joaquim Dique, MSc, Esq‬ ‪@sergiodique.bsky.social‬
Seriously. How could Americans vote for this imbecile? Oh gosh.



27/45
🇺 ‪stay4thefun.bsky.social‬ ‪@stay4thefun.bsky.social‬
50% of the United States population reads at, or below a 6th grade level. When you factor in this metric it becomes apparent what the answer to your question is.



28/45
🇺 ‪jvsylvester.bsky.social‬ ‪@jvsylvester.bsky.social‬
Only 40% (÷/-) of us can correctly identify the three branches of government.



29/45
🇺 ‪stay4thefun.bsky.social‬ ‪@stay4thefun.bsky.social‬
Someone would have to pass a course in 12th grade government class to know these mysteries that you are speaking of 😜



30/45
🇺 ‪jvsylvester.bsky.social‬ ‪@jvsylvester.bsky.social‬
My 4th grade teacher required us to be able to recite the Preamble. In the 8th grade, we had to know the topics addressed by the Bill of Rights. Exposure to the Federalist Papers came in high school. Is that not everyone's experience?



31/45
🇺 ‪stay4thefun.bsky.social‬ ‪@stay4thefun.bsky.social‬
Honestly, a considerable amount of my understanding came from "Schoolhouse Rock", long before High School.



32/45
🇺 ‪Decomposing_Compositions‬ ‪@decompositions1974.bsky.social‬
Science will always win and those too ignorant to acknowledge its existence are doomed to its fate.



33/45
🇺 ‪geomanny.bsky.social‬ ‪@geomanny.bsky.social‬
Trump is an A-hole that only cares about money. Even if it means letting the world burn.



34/45
🇺 ‪stressnag.bsky.social‬ ‪@stressnag.bsky.social‬
People with a Masters or a PhD who do this for a living and have dedicated their lives to studying and understanding don't know anything but me, an uneducated, unintelligent, willfully ignorant person with every reason imaginable ($$!!) to deny the existence of a man-made climate impact DOES KNOW🙄😒.



35/45
🇺 ‪anita72.bsky.social‬ ‪@anita72.bsky.social‬
He doesn't understand the difference between climate and seasons. Seriously, he doesn't.



36/45
🇺 ‪futuremine.bsky.social‬ ‪@futuremine.bsky.social‬
He lacks discernment. He can't care enough about something to learn about how it works. It's extreme mental laziness.



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🇺 ‪anita72.bsky.social‬ ‪@anita72.bsky.social‬
He also lacks empathy. The concept of service completely escapes him.



38/45
🇺 ‪Oralee Kennedy ☀️🌟‬ ‪@oraleigh.bsky.social‬
Agreed. I have long said he is a malignant narcissist: lacks empathy, feels entitled to whatever he wants, whenever he wants, thinks he is special/superior, takes advantage of everyone, and monopolizes whatever situation he is in. DISGUSTING. He is the polar opposite of everything good and right.



39/45
🇺 ‪futuremine.bsky.social‬ ‪@futuremine.bsky.social‬
Can you imagine what a drag it would be to hang out with him?



40/45
🇺 ‪anita72.bsky.social‬ ‪@anita72.bsky.social‬
Awful. I didn't like him from the first time I saw him on TV in the 80's. My banker's radar kicked in. I always thought he was sleazy.



41/45
🇺 ‪souperchoicechick.bsky.social‬ ‪@souperchoicechick.bsky.social‬
He was on the front page of every gossip tabloid in the 80s and 90s sleazing it up!



42/45
🇺 ‪xisthebeast.bsky.social‬ ‪@xisthebeast.bsky.social‬
yeah...just like coronavirus was gonna disappear by Easter 2020. IDIOT!



43/45
🇺 ‪cherriebaby.bsky.social‬ ‪@cherriebaby.bsky.social‬
Don’t forget in the beginning he said it was another democrat hoax . As soon as the election is over the virus will disappear. I hate him more than I have ever hated a person.



44/45
🇺 ‪Mad Barchetta‬ ‪@madbarchetta.bsky.social‬
I'm just so damn sick of the idiocy. His and that other 33% of the country's. I'm so not up for another four years of this shyt.



45/45
🇺 ‪Chicano Art Lover‬ ‪@chicanoartlover.bsky.social‬
What a fukking idiot. But then, how many times has that been said already about this fukking idiot.



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1/35
Brian Tyler Cohen

My God, the state of rightwing media today is a joke. This is a nonstory about David Muir using a clothespin to keep his jacket tight, assuredly so that his loose jacket wouldn't interfere with his lav mic in the intense winds.

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2/35
‪Deirdre Assenza‬ ‪@deirdreassenza.bsky.social‬

As a former radio news person I can confirm that reporters do anything necessary to stop the sound of fabric flapping cacophonously over the mic in the wind. Winds in CA are like 100mph right now. That hood flapping and pulling the coat would have sounded like a drum solo

3/35
‪DrTom‬ ‪@reeldrtom.bsky.social‬

He didn't think to zip his coat ?

4/35
‪Deirdre Assenza‬ ‪@deirdreassenza.bsky.social‬

That wouldn’t stop the loose fabric and hood from flapping. That’s a waterproof jacket it would sound like a flapping tarp. In that level of wind everything has to be pinned tight

5/35
‪Scott‬ ‪@sp2799.bsky.social‬

As a former TV news photographer, I can confirm this is correct. Also, Muir had nothing to do with this. It was the news photog and I bet he/she carried the clothespins in their camera bag.

6/35
‪Colorado Nature Gal‬ ‪@conaturegal.bsky.social‬

Right wing media is a drug to so many Americans. Viewers live on this rage and it shows in the decrease in empathy and respect that Americans have for each other. Yet many call themselves Christians. Yeah, right.

7/35
‪Calee‬ ‪@xcalee.bsky.social‬

I have to share that as a child I thought God's purpose for me was to witness to people after the rapture (Thanks Left Behind series for kids and religious trauma) now I'm just like "if this is to happen in my lifetime, I hope to be here just to laugh at all the phony Christians left behind."

8/35
‪starfar-return.bsky.social‬ ‪@starfar-return.bsky.social‬

Meanwhile they worship a guy in a girdle who wears a wig and more face makeup than a teenaged girl.

9/35
‪orphanannie1958.bsky.social‬ ‪@orphanannie1958.bsky.social‬

And a diaper.

10/35
‪mapedencoviello.bsky.social‬ ‪@mapedencoviello.bsky.social‬

They’ve been this way for years. Remember how Fox “News” screeched for days bc then-President Obama had the sheer audacity to wear a (gasp) tan suit in public? You’d have thought he’d stolen boxes of state secrets, stashed them in his gold-plated john & sold ‘em to the highest bidder. No, wait.

11/35
‪liberalnichole.bsky.social‬ ‪@liberalnichole.bsky.social‬

Or when Michelle Obama wore a sleeveless top that showed her shoulders?!? Right wing media is downright ridiculous!

12/35
‪mapedencoviello.bsky.social‬ ‪@mapedencoviello.bsky.social‬

Yep. Oh, the frothing over that top! But Melania can wear a see-through dress & that’s utter elegance, right? Oof.

13/35
‪Kolimpri‬ ‪@kolimpri222.bsky.social‬

Then she goes to a funeral with dirty hair, looking like a pissed off pilgrim, nary a word from Fox.

14/35
‪garhuntly.bsky.social‬ ‪@garhuntly.bsky.social‬

Melania looked like the Flying Nun has been grounded.

15/35
‪KontinentalKitties‬ ‪@kontinentalkitties.bsky.social‬

David Muir is one of the FEW News Anchors left with any journalistic integrity. The NYPost rag isn’t even suitable to wipe one’s ass!

16/35
‪Ruby 💌‬ ‪@rubysummervp.bsky.social‬

when you’re so good at your job that they have to resort to middle school bully tactics to try to insult you 🤣

17/35
‪Wirral‬ ‪@w1rral.bsky.social‬

It’s sad but funny to witness the moralistic high ground Fox takes about women’s clothing - similar to the Taliban? - despite their policy of short skirts on blond hosts.
They also support a 3x adulterer who pays for sex.
Why does anybody with a brain even watch Murdoch’s propaganda machines?

18/35
‪westcoastpost.bsky.social‬ ‪@westcoastpost.bsky.social‬

We've been seeing that many Repubs have been paying for sex and/or taking sex without consent.
Dirty water seeks it's own level. Welcome to the right wing swamp.

19/35
‪Wirral‬ ‪@w1rral.bsky.social‬

We have been seeing that but we don’t have to accept it do we?
It starts with the media reporting accurately, not worrying about hurting a perpetrator’s feelings but speaking truth.
It would also help if Congress would get off its ass and pass laws protecting its citizens over the conmen.

20/35
‪westcoastpost.bsky.social‬ ‪@westcoastpost.bsky.social‬


A rabid Republican base will not listen to anything or anyone that runs counter to the "disenfranchised" narrative they invest so heavily in.
There are plenty of things to focus on and media is but one.

21/35
‪Wirral‬ ‪@w1rral.bsky.social‬

I don’t entirely agree.
The reason I say that is that I don’t believe there are 77 million rabid MAGA’s - and I totally agree with your representation of them. If the “fringe MAGA’s” who just drop in and out of news cycles only hear the lies, then they’ll vote from a position of ignorance.

22/35
‪westcoastpost.bsky.social‬ ‪@westcoastpost.bsky.social‬

"You can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink." is the old saying....but you can encourage water intake if you oversalt the hay. We need the Progressive version of salt for 77 million asses that are not interested in drinking water. I've no idea as to what that would even be.

23/35
‪Wirral‬ ‪@w1rral.bsky.social‬

I got lost in there a like but I think I agree.
I guess my point; using your analogy; is that if you only ever show your horse water with red dye, eventually they’ll think that’s reality and drink the dye.

24/35
‪technausea‬ ‪@technausea.bsky.social‬

This comes from a group of people who worship a man who paints himself orange.

25/35
‪bonton00.bsky.social‬ ‪@bonton00.bsky.social‬

Reminds me of the Mars trilogy where different factions dedicated to different futures for mars get together and end up painting their women the color of their movement.

26/35
‪MusicNTutor‬ ‪@musicntutor.bsky.social‬

But he DOES LOOK SVELTE! Billionaire elon & tfump cant buy this look?! Wtf?! Life so unfair for oligarchs!

27/35
‪tmh145.bsky.social‬ ‪@tmh145.bsky.social‬

David Muir is wonderful eye candy to this old lady - I don't give a damn what he does to his clothes - except maybe wear less clothes. Those freaks over at the NY Post are stupid.

28/35
‪Goody2shuz‬ ‪@goody2shuz.bsky.social‬

I might be older but I've still got enough life in me to agree with you!

29/35
‪Jean Ibosh‬ ‪@fedup90611.bsky.social‬

They have to talk nonsense because they can’t mention that their guy is officially a felon.

30/35
‪omegaman66.bsky.social‬ ‪@omegaman66.bsky.social‬

Like 5th grade bullies making fun of people who wear glasses. It’s old, it’s been old, childish reporting on crap we really don’t care about. They will never grow up. 🤦‍♂️

31/35
‪simplyemc.bsky.social‬ ‪@simplyemc.bsky.social‬

Sad thing, they ARE as grown as they will ever be!

32/35
‪Skykiss‬ ‪@skykiss.bsky.social‬

I said something to friends tonight about folks who are stuck in middle school. I'm not intending to denigrate, but it's so friggin' pointless. If they would freaking READ a real book, write ✍🏻 expand their narrow minds. 🧑🏻‍💻🧑🏻‍🎓🕵🏻🧑🏻‍⚖️⚖️📚📖📐🖊️

33/35
‪roncrawford.bsky.social‬ ‪@roncrawford.bsky.social‬

I guarantee that 9 out of 10 maga haven’t read a book since graduating high school. The 1 out 10 that have are narcissistic.

34/35
‪Sam‬ ‪@sambonham1.bsky.social‬

All these people are capable of, is inventing misinformation, inflating minor inconveniences into major disasters and ridiculing the hardworking and the suffering, all to inflate their own egos. It’s f*cking disgusting and it’s not journalism.
It’s embarrassing.

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‪nls5.bsky.social‬ ‪@nls5.bsky.social‬

the other thing you forget is who gives a shyt about the clothespins?

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Amazing what happens when rich people houses are on the line. I don’t think we even got this for napa
I don’t think that’s fair to say. People are known to help in times of great need. Look at 9/11. A lot of people, old heads and people like myself, have never seen anything like this before. This is ugly history we’re witnessing right now.

These fires are closing in on 40k acres and it’s not even halfway contained.
 

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I don’t think that’s fair to say. People are known to help in times of great need. Look at 9/11. A lot of people, old heads and people like myself, have never seen anything like this before. This is ugly history we’re witnessing right now.

These fires are closing in on 40k acres and it’s not even halfway contained.
Bro, while no where near as populated, Paradise was wiped off the map and didn’t get a national response and the fire was multitudes times bigger. The location of the Palisades fire is bringing help beyond that of which we typically get from our neighboring states

The fact that we’ve had multiple bigger fires just within this decade and you say this is something you’ve never seen speaks volumes to what the locale has done for this fire
 

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Bro, while no where near as populated, Paradise was wiped off the map and didn’t get a national response and the fire was multitudes times bigger. The location of the Palisades fire is bringing help beyond that of which we typically get from our neighboring states

The fact that we’ve had multiple bigger fires just within this decade and you say this is something you’ve never seen speaks volumes to what the locale has done for this fire
The LA county fires are affecting a lot of communities; Places that aren’t known to be in fire heavy places (see Eaton Fire). There’s already 12k+ structures burned and neither of the big fires aren’t even 50% contained or 1 week into it.

And the winds are gonna pick up until Wednesday. There’s a high chance it gets worse because neighborhoods are still affected with potential threat. It makes sense to send in help early. The woolsey and Paradise Fires likely made these idiots wake up when it comes to fire emergencies. Too bad they’re not doing anything to store more water.
 

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The LA county fires are affecting a lot of communities; Places that aren’t known to be in fire heavy places (see Eaton Fire). There’s already 12k+ structures burned and neither of the big fires aren’t even 50% contained or 1 week into it.

And the winds are gonna pick up until Wednesday. There’s a high chance it gets worse because neighborhoods are still affected with potential threat. It makes sense to send in help early. The woolsey and Paradise Fires likely made these idiots wake up.
I mean you can choose to believe in humanity. If it were the Eaton fire and the other 3-4 smaller ones, it would be business as usual. But with the palisades, Malibu burning and other exclusive zip codes threatened, it seems to have gotten a bigger response (which at least benefits the fire fighting efforts in the other areas)
 

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I mean you can choose to believe in humanity. If it were the Eaton fire and the other 3-4 smaller ones, it would be business as usual. But with the palisades, Malibu burning and other exclusive zip codes threatened, it seems to have gotten a bigger response (which at least benefits the fire fighting efforts in the other areas)
Malibu burned a few weeks ago. No one out of state came to help and it was treated like another fire. :skip:

I’m in LA county. I’m witnessing this with my own eyes. I’ve never seen anything like this and you have older people saying the same thing. I remember Paradise and Woolsey. Those were bad, but what else do you expect when people want to live in heavy forestry areas? When you have communities next to the ocean burning down, businesses and houses you wouldn’t think would burn, you expect people to sit on their hands?

I know people who know people who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire. None of them were wealthy or even close to rich. When you have places like Brentwood or Encino or Arcadia potentially in the crosshairs, it’s getting spooky. This is one of those, “oh shyt, this is fukkin real :lupe:” type of fires.
 
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